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The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

R. A. Gilbert & Michael Cox

First published 2003
Publisher Oxford University Press
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Pages xx+497
Price £9.99
ISBN 0192804472

Stated 1st printing as per number line. Price in the US $17.95. {{LCCN|91-2748}} "Printed in Great Britain"

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Old Nurse's Story Elizabeth Gaskell Novelette
19 An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street J. S. Le Fanu Novelette
37 The Miniature J. Y. Akerman Short Story
44 The Last House in C— Street Dinah Mulock Short Story
55 To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt Charles Dickens Short Story
65 The Botathen Ghost R. S. Hawker Short Story
74 The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But the Truth Rhoda Broughton Short Story
83 The Romance of Certain Old Clothes Henry James Short Story
100 Pichon & Sons, of the Croix Rousse Anonymous Short Fiction
115 Reality or Delusion? Mrs. Henry Wood Short Story
130 Uncle Cornelius His Story George MacDonald Short Story
150 The Shadow of a Shade Tom Hood Short Story
163 At Chrighton Abbey Mary Elizabeth Braddon Novelette
190 No Living Voice Thomas Street Millington Short Story
198 Miss Jéromette and the Clergyman Wilkie Collins Short Story
218 The Story of Clifford House Anonymous Short Fiction
239 Was it an Illusion?: A Parson's Story Amelia B. Edwards Short Story
256 The Open Door Charlotte Riddell Novelette
283 The Captain of the "Pole-Star" Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Novelette
303 The Body-Snatcher Robert Louis Stevenson Short Story
319 The Story of the Rippling Train Mary Louisa Molesworth Short Story
328 At the End of the Passage Rudyard Kipling Novelette
346 "To Let" B. M. Croker Short Story
360 John Charrington's Wedding E. Nesbit Short Story
367 The Haunted Organist of Hurly Burly Rosa Mulholland Short Story
379 The Man of Science Jerome K. Jerome Short Story
385 Canon Alberic's Scrapbook M. R. James Short Story
396 Jerry Bundler W. W. Jacobs Short Story
403 An Eddy on the Floor Bernard Capes Novella
431 The Tomb of Sarah F. G. Loring Short Story
442 The Case of Vincent Pyrwhit Barry Pain Short Story
445 The Shadows on the Wall Mary E. Wilkins Short Story
459 Father Macclesfield's Tale R. H. Benson Short Story
466 Thurnley Abbey Perceval Landon Short Story
480 The Kit-Bag Algernon Blackwood Short Story
490 Sources (Victorian Ghost Stories: An Oxford Anthology) uncredited Essay
493 Select Chronological Conspectus of Ghost Stories: 1840-1910 (Victorian Ghost Stories) uncredited Essay
ix Introduction (Victorian Ghost Stories) Michael Cox & R. A. Gilbert Essay